solved - Is my motherboard failing?

[20GT]

hardware profile
EDIT: changing the sata to from IDE to AHCI makes it disappear from the first BIOS screen on reboot.

first mystery
I'm running Ubuntu, my drive does not in bios

nor does it show as harddrive here
it will usually show the menu HARD DRIVES under boot device priority

but it shows in boot options

and ubuntu loads nevertheless


second mystery
I'm trying to install windows 8 on an exact type of drive both were bought at the same time but this one I pre-partitioned it to NTFS

same thing nothing in bios

BUT if I power down, remove the battery, reset bios and start it sees it

So i set bios to boot from DVD because the reset set everything back to defaults
restart to setup windows. window dvd boots doesn't see the drive to install
I check bios again and it's gone.
whats going on?

 

[mistersprinkles]

That's normal. You use a drive in the interface format you started with.

You can't install windows on a drive with the controller in IDE mode then switch to AHCI and expect the BIOS to still see the drive. It doesn't work like that.
Your motherboard isn't failing. The user is. hehe. Sorry couldn't resist.

Seriously though it's fine. Stop screwing around.

 

[Intel_man]

You can't install windows on a drive with the controller in IDE mode then switch to AHCI and expect the BIOS to still see the drive. It doesn't work like that.
Your

Well technically, you can. You just need Windows to make it boot the ahci drivers during the next startup (via registry changes) and then go into the bios and switch to ahci.

The weird part is that the bios is not seeing the drive depending on IDE or ahci settings... I've never seen a bios discriminate a drive from being seen in a bios because of IDE or ahci mode.

 

[20GT]

that's what I was thinking weird

 

[Intel_man]

Are you actually running a drive that uses the IDE cable? Or are they all SATA drives but they are running in IDE mode.